Literature

1. LITERATURE is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and nonfiction.
People may perceive a difference between "literature" and some popular forms of written work. The terms "literary fiction" and "literary merit" serve to distinguish between individual works. Critics may exclude works from the classification "literature," for example, on the grounds of a poor standard of grammar and syntax, of an unbelievable or disjointed story-line, or of inconsistent or unconvincing characters. Genre fiction (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature.(www.Wikipedia.com)


I choose this image because for me it is the meaning of literature because the painting is fictional because the painter imagine this painting but the emotion is real just like in literature.





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2.FILIPINO AUTHORS

Nick Joaquin
The Storyteller's New Medium - Rizal in Saga, The Complete Poems and Plays of Jose Rizal, and A Question of Heroes: Essays in Criticism on Ten Key Figures of Philippine History. He also translated the hero's valedictory poem, "Land That I Love, Farewell!"(www.Wikipedia.com)



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He won the Dominican Order-sponsored nationwide essay competition for La Naval de Manila.

One of he's writing influences Dr. Jose Rizal.



Jose Garcia Villa
He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973.He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rime scheme" in writing poetry.



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Villa was considered the leader of Filipino "artsakists", a group of writers who believe that art should be "for art's sake" hence the term. He once pronounced that "art is never a means; it is an end in itself.

Villa first published Philippine Short Stories: Best 25 Short Stories of 1928 in 1929, an anthology of Filipino short stories written in Engilsh that were mostly published in the literary magazine Philippine Free Press for that year. It is the second anthology to have been published in the Philippines, after Philippine Love Stories by editor Paz Marquez-Benitez in 1927. His first collection of short stories that he has written were published under the title Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others in 1933; while in 1939, Villa published Many Voices, his first collection poems, followed by Poems by Doveglion in 1941. Other collections of poems include Have Come, Am Here (1942), Volume Two (1949), and Selected Poems and New (1958).(www.Wikipedia.com)



Amado V. Hernandez
While still a teenager, he began writing in Tagalog for the newspaper WatawatPagkakaisaMabuhay (Long Live). (Flag). He would later write a column for the Tagalog publication (Unity) and become editor of.His writings gained the attention of Tagalog literati and some of his stories and poems were included in anthologies, such as Clodualdo del Mundo's Parolang Ginto and Alejandro Abadilla's Talaang Bughaw.In 1922, at the age of 19, Hernandez became a member of the literary society Aklatang Bayan Lope K. Santos and Jose Corazon de Jesus. which included noted Tagalog writers In 1932, he married the Filipino actress Atang de la Rama. Both of them would later be recognized as National Artists: Hernandez for Literature, de la Rama for Theater, Dance and Music.(www.Wikipedia.com)


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Novels
-Mga Ibong Mandaragit(Birds of Prey),1969
-Luha Ng Buwaya(Crocodile's Tears), 1972
Poems
-Isang Dipang Langit (An Arm's Length Piece of the Sky)
-Panata sa Kalayaan (Oath to Freedom)
-Ang Dalaw (The Visit)
-Bartolina (Solitary Confinement)
-Kung Tuyo Na ang Luha Mo Aking Bayan(When Your Tears Dry Up, My Country)
Short Stories
-Wala nang Lunas (No more Remedy)
-Kulang sa Dilig (Needs Watering)
-Langaw sa Isang Basong Gatas (Fly in a Glass of Milk)
-Dalawang Metro sa Lupang Di-Malipad ng Uwak (Two Meters in the Land Which a Crow Can't Fly on)
-Ipinanganak ang Isang Kaaway sa Sosyedad (An Enemy of the Society is Born)
-Magpinsan (Cousins)Love Story
Plays
-Muntinglupa , 1957
-Hagdan sa Bahaghari (Stairway to the Rainbow), 1958
-Ang Mga Kagalang-galang (The Venerables), 1959
-Magkabilang Mukha ng Isang Bagol (Two Sides of A Coin), 1960

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